Author
the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Mālaqī
Publication Date
Friday I 851 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
260 x 170 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 2408
Record ID
vdc_100046596924.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
Friday I 851 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Volume One (Volume One) of a medical compendium on the use of simples to cure various ailments by the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Mālaqī (Dia al-Din Abu Muhammad Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Mālaqī; d. 1248), known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (Ibn al-Bitar), Chief Herbalist (Chief Herbalist) to the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil (reg. 1218-38). The text is dedicated to al-Malik al-‘Ādil II (Al-Malik al-Adil Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr ibn al-Malik al-Kamil, reg. 1238-40, see. f. 3v, lines 5-12).
The text is arranged by affected part from head to toe in twenty chapters (chapter), of which this copy contains the first eight. Each chapter is then subdivided by ailment into sections (chapters). A list of all twenty chapters and their titles is found on ff. 4r-4v. The contents of the present volume are as follows:
Chapter One: Simple Drugs Beneficial for Ailments of the Head (Chapter One: On Single Drugs Beneficial for Ailments of the Head, ff. 5r-59r);
Chapter Two: Simple Drugs Beneficial for Ailments of the Eye (Chapter Two on Single Drugs Beneficial for Ailments of the Eye, ff. 59r-89v);
Chapter Three: Simple Drugs Beneficial for Ailments of the Ear (Chapter Three on Single Drugs Beneficial for Ailments of the Ear, ff. 89v-101v);
Chapter Four: Simple Drugs Beneficial for Ailments of the Nose
Chapter Five: Simple Drugs Beneficial for Ailments of the Mouth (Chapter Five on Single Drugs Beneficial for Ailments of the Mouth, ff. 105v-129r);
Chapter Six: Simple Drugs Beneficial for Ailments of the Throat, Organs of Respiration, the Chest and its Contents.
Chapter Seven: Simple Drugs Beneficial for Ailments of the Stomach, Liver and Spleen (Chapter Seven on Single Drugs Beneficial for Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and Spleen, ff. 180v-236v);
Chapter Eight: Simple Drugs Beneficial for Ailments of the Intestines (Chapter Eight on Single Drugs Beneficial for Intestinal Diseases, ff. 236v-287r).
The title page (f. 2r) claims that the volume was owned by the Ottoman sultan Bāyezīd II (Bayezid bin Muhammad Khan Muzaffar al-Dāma, reg. 1481-1512). This claim is substantiated by what appears to be the defaced seal of Bāyezīd II to the left of the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
on f. 287r (see Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database no. 2 and cf. impressions of this seal in Add. MS 18866, f 292r and Add. MS 7515, ff. 1r and 132v).
The copy was completed in early Jumādá I 851/second half of July 1447 by Ways ibn ‘Awaḍ (Ways ibn Awad, see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 287r, lines 4-7, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-4):
Praise be to God, who has sent down a cure for every disease, so he deserves the presence of His blessings on His servants
Praise and praise, and He established for every knowledge a campaign from which they gathered scattered things and endured
He has burdens, so if he avoids (!) from the hardship of the accusative, he who follows their path follows...
Ends (f. 286v, line 13-f. 287r, line 1):
Abu Jarih said that snakes are born from things in the stomach
Soft raw materials, such as wheat, beans, cowpeas, chickpeas, and young meat products
From pork, pouring flour, addiction to drinking milk, and drinking honey with water
With water (!) after eating often and from eating dirty bread, love
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 287r, lines 2-9):
The first volume of the book was completed
The decree in the vocabulary of Ibn Bitar, may God have mercy on him
Wide mercy freed in the early
Jumada al-Akhirah is one of the months
Year fifty-one and eight
Written by Wais Ibn Awad, may God forgive him
And for all Muslims, male and female, male and female believers
By your mercy, O Most Merciful of the Merciful
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Hamarneh, Sami,
Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library
(Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 199, pp. 171-72
Rieu, Charles,
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum
(London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 800, p. 543
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from Shapira, 23 July 1881
Köken
‘Abd Allāh (عبد الله): his inscription, without date (f. 1r);
Ibrāhīm, known as Abraq (?) (إبراهيم الشهير بأبرق [؟]): his inscription, with date Jumādá I 1105/December 1693-January 1694 (f. 2r);
Bāyezīd II (بايزيد بن محمد خان مظفر دائمًا ), Ottoman sultan (reg. 1481-1512): his seal, defaced, without date (f. 287r, to left of
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
; see Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database no. 2 and Suha Umar, Osmanlı Padişah Tuğraları [Istanbul: Cem Yayinevi, 1980] p. 120).
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Study:
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 280-83
